Doug Nix

President, Managing Director & Principal Consultant

Dou­glas (Doug) Nix, C.E.T., SM-IEEE’14, is co-own­er of Com­pli­ance Insight Con­sult­ing, Inc. (https://www.complianceinsight.ca) in Kitch­en­er, Ontario, Canada.

His back­ground cov­ers more than 35 years of engi­neer­ing tech­nol­o­gy expe­ri­ence, includ­ing prod­uct test­ing, indus­tri­al con­trol sys­tem design and machin­ery safety.

Expertise

Doug Nix spe­cial­izes in machin­ery safe­ty and risk assess­ment meth­ods and process­es. He has stud­ied, applied, and taught risk assess­ment prin­ci­ples and process­es since 1996.

Since grad­u­at­ing from Sheri­dan Col­lege in 1985, Doug has worked in the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, con­sult­ing, elec­tri­cal prod­ucts man­u­fac­tur­ing, and automa­tion sys­tems industries.

Writing

Doug has writ­ten exten­sive­ly for indus­try trade mag­a­zines, the OACETT Tech­nol­o­gist, and the IEEE PSES Newslet­ter. He has pub­lished sev­er­al papers pri­vate­ly and through the IEEE relat­ing risk assess­ment, func­tion­al safe­ty and machin­ery safe­ty. Read Doug’s research con­tri­bu­tions on Research­Gate. Read Doug’s research con­tri­bu­tions on IEEE Xplore.

Standards Development

Doug Nix is a mem­ber of the fol­low­ing pro­fes­sion­al organizations:

• Ontario Asso­ci­a­tion of Cer­ti­fied Engi­neer­ing Tech­ni­cians and Tech­nol­o­gists (OACETT) since 1991
• Insti­tute for Elec­tri­cal and Elec­tron­ic Engi­neers (IEEE) since 2004
• IEEE Senior Mem­ber since 2014
• Prod­uct Safe­ty Engi­neer­ing Soci­ety (PSES) since 2004
• Indus­tri­al Appli­ca­tions Soci­ety (IAS) since 2010
• Cana­di­an Stan­dards Asso­ci­a­tion (CSA) since 2007
• Stan­dards Coun­cil of Cana­da (SCC) since 2012

Doug Nix serves on many CSA, IEC, and ISO Tech­ni­cal Com­mit­tees relat­ed to his work, including:

• CSA C22.2 No. 301, Indus­tri­al Elec­tri­cal Equipment
• CSA W117.2, Safe­ty in Weld­ing, cut­ting and allied processes
• CSA Z432, Safe­guard­ing of Machinery
• CSA Z1002, OHS Risk Assessment
• SCC Stan­dards Mir­ror Com­mit­tees to 
  • IEC/TC 44 — Safe­ty of machin­ery — Elec­trotech­ni­cal aspects
  • IEC/TC 65/SC 65A Indus­tri­al-process mea­sure­ment, con­trol and automation—Systems aspects
  • IEC/TC 121/SC 121B Switchgear and con­trol­gear and their assem­blies for low voltage—Low-voltage switchgear and con­trol­gear assemblies
  • ISO/IEC Joint Task Force on the Con­cept of Risk and Asso­ci­at­ed Terms (2024)
  • ISO COPOLCO
  • ISO/PC 329, Con­sumer inci­dent investigation
  • ISO TC 83/WG 6, Sport and recreation—Risk assessment 
  • ISO TC 199, Safe­ty of machinery
  • ISO TC 270, Plas­tic and rub­ber machin­ery (past Chair and member)

Writing

Doug writes the Machin­ery Safe­ty 101 blog, explor­ing var­i­ous machin­ery safe­ty-relat­ed topics.

Contact Information

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Mr. Dou­glas Nix, C.E.T., SM-IEEE’14
Man­ag­ing Direc­tor & Prin­ci­pal Con­sul­tant
Com­pli­ance Insight Con­sult­ing Inc.
Kitch­en­er, Ontario, Canada

Social Media

Doug’s pro­file on LinkedIn